An organization is any group of people with a common objective. Simply put, two or more people may band together to form an organization because they determine that working together is a more effective means for creating value than if each of them continued to work separately. While a good deal...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...

An organization does not simply appear on its own; in fact, organizations are contrived social systems that are created by like-minded groups of persons to pursue and hopefully achieve a stated goal or purpose. Organizational design is concerned with the factors and issues that must be...

Porter and Powell argued that networks “are a ubiquitous and critical feature of organizational life” and that all organizations, and the individuals within them, “are enmeshed in networks at varied, multiple levels”. While networks have always been important and relevant in...